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Allison, Asha and Rambin dump the Web, embrace TV


It's unclear if wanterpreneurs Julia Allison, Meghan Asha and Mary Rambin will cancel their Silicon Valley tour entirely, but word is the trio has wised up to venture-capital realities. Valley angel Ron Conway, an early backer of Google and Ask.com, "has a list of 200 things he'd invest in and nowhere on there is content," Allison's friend David Karp, the founder of Tumblr, advised her. She got the same advice from Valleywag commenters. Undaunted, Allison, Asha and Rambin are already onto funding plan B. The New York Post reports the trio will star in a pilot for a reality TV show named IT Girls about creating their Web company. The difference between exposing every detail of their lives to Web viewers and TV audiences? The latter actually gets them paid.

1:00 PM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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  • Was "Skank.com" already taken?

  • Unfortunately every women in the industry and the ones that want to get into the industry want to play with the boys and seem not interested in this play down to gender way of targeting the audience..

  • No commenter image uploaded Patricia2 at 01:23 PM on 03/24/08 *

    It's been pitched and pilots are already in the works on similar ideas but glad to see my comments help :)

  • Image of Julia Allison Julia Allison at 01:30 PM on 03/24/08 *

    @googoobaby: oh snap!

  • I guess "Skanks In The City" was also taken? That "dress" Keghan is wearing looks like a nightgown from Walmart.

  • @QADude: I think Julia is wearing our 70s shower curtain she got at one of my mom's garage sales.

  • Odds of a TV pilot ever making it to air = 1/10

  • Meet Meghan, the savvy, perky CEO. Julia, the shameless marketeer who'll do anything to close a sale. And Mary, the seamstress who needs a grommet in every hole.

    Vivid Video presents UP YOUR ASHA. Fall, 2008.

  • there might be a spot for that show in the fox reality tv channel and all of its 10 watchers.

  • Image of Alaska Miller Alaska Miller at 02:13 PM on 03/24/08 *

    episode 1:

    julia browses rentacoder.com

    episode 2:

    meghan flies in her jet cross country to shake hands with old white men

    episode 3:

    mary makes a bag and sells it to her rich friends for a pity $1000 and she uses that as her "seed" money

    episode 4:

    the indian guy that julia sends the code for the site but it doesn't work. meghan now needs to do more than shaking hands with old white men to keep their dream alive.

    episode 5:

    flavor flav drops in for a cameo for a fashion makeover!

    episode 6:

    math is hard. writing python code to average numbers is also very hard! teehee~!!

  • @shareme: You are right. Many of us that are REAL IT girls would rather work our asses off the old fashioned way rather than show our T&A to make it.

    Brains over skanky degrading behaviour any day.

    Thank you Julia and crew for trying to set back the feminist movement 20 years.

  • TV, IT?

    I picture large boxes with real to real tapes spinning in the background.

    What do they need the girls for?

  • @tawni:"Many of us that are REAL IT girls would rather work our asses off the old fashioned way rather than show our T&A to make it."

    T?

    I'm not so sure about A either.

    Man, I'm in a mean mood today.

  • Isn't there something more interesting to report than This Allison Chick? Is she sleeping with someone at Valleywag to get all of this press about her horribly uninteresting life?

  • Mary gets lip waxed...

  • judging by the reaction she gets here the show will have geekdom enthralled, but they will have to attract some other constituency because geeks alone couldn't save Jericho or firefly, they have a nasty habit of stealing content instead of watching it on TV with commercials.

  • Somehow I knew that @tawni was in IT..The high intelligence shows through every time in every comment that you make

  • @Alaska Miller: In Episode 6, Leah Pulver makes a guest appearance to explain how to round numbers down by converting to strings and clipping off the little dot. Then there's the fashion makeover...

  • Image of Alaska Miller Alaska Miller at 02:37 PM on 03/24/08 *

    @OnYourEnemiesList:

    my treatment and concept:

    paris hilton + kim kardashian in "the simple life: how i want to be made into a dot-com millionaire; beauties and the geeks" with supporting cast of julia the spunky marketing guru, meghan the financial brains and mary the pretty designer in their quest to topple the all-boys club while they discuss topical female issues and yet still be looking cute doing it! ashton kutcher drops in at the end and tells them all they've been punk'd.

    and that, ladies and gentlemen is why i'm such a rockstar tv producer. greenlight baby!

  • Sorry, typo. Culver, not Pulver. It's hard to keep the f-tards straight without a program.

  • @macbeach: I could honestly care less what you think of my tits and ass. I work hard every day and the prada triplets would probably be too afraid to break a nail doing even half the work I do in a day.

  • The word it is obviously used very loosely here.

  • No the show is this:

    Real Geeks Can't Lip Synch....sort of dancing with geeks ..meets..well reality

  • Who is Mary Rambin?

    More coverage required, VW.

  • don't know if the post or the comments horrify me more. why does being attractive mean they have never done a hard day's work? trying to build a company is pretty damn hard no matter who you are or what you look like. @tawni: you are being more sexist than any of the men on this thread.

  • ooh,ooh,ohh!

    Episode 1(first 3/4th of the show): They can tell about their lesbian exploits while hacking in to enemy governments networks to save the world...

    (last 1/2 of the show) Then after a hard days work, they will shave each other 'private areas' while sharing their dildo which is appropriately named 'Ruby as Hard as a Rail'! Jason Calacanis's two english bull dogs will also have a cameo where they will take turn on Julia's bitch =)

    roll credits.........

  • Image of Alaska Miller Alaska Miller at 03:16 PM on 03/24/08 *

    @valleychick:

    ugly women have a chip on their shoulder. just like how i hate brad pitt.

  • @valleychick: First, what do you mean attractive?!?!? Who? Where?

  • @tawni: Work smarter, not harder.

  • Image of Alaska Miller Alaska Miller at 04:59 PM on 03/24/08 *

    @Zoo:

    Zoo must one of the pretty ones.

  • I'm waiting for the crossover episode with "The L Word" - I'd probably watch that.

  • @dalejo: Would you like to see the L Word version of Golden Girls?

  • @tawni: I concur. i don't mind t&a, and I don't mind female brainiacs, and I enjoy them together, but this seems stupid.

  • Image of matto matto at 06:55 PM on 03/24/08 *

    Why do you all hate them for being beautiful? Jealousy is so ugly.

  • @Fidel on the Roof: Yeah,that's what I was thinking. Who is attractive in that bunch?

    Now, when I first read this I thought it meant "it girls" in the same way that Tara Reid and Lindsay Lohan were "it girls." Now, I'm thinking they mean IT as in information technology.

    Whoa, slow down here. What exactly does a gossip/sex columist for a low rate magazine and a handbag designer from USC know about tech. I'm not going to bag on Asha because she did work as an Analyst at a hedge fund. She's not dumb.

    First Dina Lohan gets her own show, now this dimwit. Who watches this shiz?

    p.s. ever see Julia Allison on TV trying to talk about gossip? Imagine her trying to talk about building a tech company. Scary.

  • @Buffy_Doo: "I'm not going to bag on Asha because she did work as an Analyst at a hedge fund. She's not dumb."

    Exsqueeze me? Have you chatted with analysts? If I could only depend on the great neural power of the ones I've met, harnessed together, I'd still need help to count my fingers. Let's not even discuss toes.

  • Image of raincoaster raincoaster at 08:43 PM on 03/24/08 *

    @valleychick: Come on now, Asha is the only one who's had a real job. Allison is a MacGuffin picked up by Denton and toyed with to see what he could do (pretty impressive results, actually). Ramblin is the token blonde. Being a handbag designer and oil company heiress is not really sweat-breaking, especially if THOSE whoreanus wristicles are the best you can come up with.

    The entire POINT of this premise is that these girls have no point. Which is also the point of every post about them.

  • Image of matto matto at 08:48 PM on 03/24/08 *

    @raincoaster: I might be showing my ignorance here, but is "whoreanus wristicles" latin?

  • I know some female (and male for that matter) analysts that are absolutely retarded..

  • Everyone thinks Paris Hilton is stupid yet every time her photo ends up on the internet, it gets millions of impressions. Ca-ching! As long as the people are clicking and reading, the bloggers keep posting, advertisers keep getting eye balls and publishers keep selling inventory. Who cares who likes them or hates them as long as people keep posting and talking. Actually, the more people feel outraged and passionate hatred, the more they feel compelled to read and post. These girls are smart, get in, make some money, you don't need to work a day in your life if you play it right. It's the Paris Hilton way of making it. The next thing you know, people are paying you to show up at their stupid parties and wear their lame clothes.

  • @inga: all at the cost of looking like a complete joke to the entire rest of the population that could give less a shit who's napsack, dress or shoes your wearing..

  • Image of matto matto at 09:36 PM on 03/24/08 *

    @Zoo: I have considered this, and decided that I could give a rats ass what someone with 1/10th my income thinks of me. I get the feeling the "IT Girls" feel likewise.

  • @matto: I agree with you in general, although I like insulting Julia Allison because she reminds me of the wife of every futures trader I've ever met. The risk for them (if you can call it a risk, I'd call it a blessing in disguise) is an actual backlash when the trendy pseudo-nerd people that have invaded the Valley all fail miserably, and what's left are more standoffish bitter real nerds who will have resentment for blown off at [random horrible party sometime between 2002-2009].

  • Image of matto matto at 10:13 PM on 03/24/08 *

    @Dweezil: You speak as if that is the future, and not the present.

  • @matto: Facebook hasn't imploded, Kevin Rose is going to wine tastings, Michael Arrington hasn't been banished back to the infernal demon realm where he was originally summoned. It's not the present.

  • No commenter image uploaded random_play at 03:18 AM on 03/25/08 *

    You guys are barking up the wrong genre:

    NICK DENTON is undercover for CTU: Tell us how to defuse the bomb!
    TERRORIST: You fool, the bomb can't be defused. It's tied to Julia Allison's fameball. When her fame fades, your decadent city will die with it!
    NICK: Damn! [dialing phone] Melissa, I need you to extend Julia Allison's fame as long as possible. See if you can get her a TV pilot.
    MELISSA: [on phone] On short notice? Nick, that's not going to be easy.
    NICK: Do whatever it takes.
    MELISSA: Whatever it takes? Hmm... I think I can work something out. I'll call you back.
    NICK: [dialing again] Jackson, I need your help. Julia is about to...
    JACKSON: [phone] I am a double agent. Die, Capitalist Pig!
    NICK: Dammit!
    Meanwhile, in another part of the city...
    Mary Rambin: Help! I'm trapped by a mountain lion!

  • Image of raincoaster raincoaster at 04:55 AM on 03/25/08 *

    @matto: Wrist testicles that look like old tranny hookers'. They're Mary Ramblin's claim to fame: she designed them.

    "Whoreanus" is only latin in the sense that I stole it from Perez Hilton.

  • Image of raincoaster raincoaster at 04:58 AM on 03/25/08 *

    @random_play: Oh, see, now THAT I would get cable for.

  • @raincoaster: About Asha... her daddy is a hedge guy.

  • @matto: About the 1/10th thing... it is up to YOU and your friends to see if they will get that kind of attention and make it ($$$).

    I'm glad I know what I may expect to see down the road on tv... and I'm staying the fuck away from it! :-)

  • Image of raincoaster raincoaster at 09:32 PM on 03/25/08 *

    @Fidel on the Roof: True, but she DID have a real job. I try not to discriminate against people solely on the basis of their parentage, but rather their accomplishments and character. Which explains the rest of my haterade in these threads.

  • @raincoaster: I try not to too... we just have to remember that 3/4 of the work it takes to land a successful position is getting in in the first place. Parents and networks open up a whole world.

    I know plenty of tards who make tons of cash and are seen as successful when the reality is that their co-workers do the work and obvious business decisions are made.

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